Form for garments.



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APPLICATION IIL'BD my 13; 1912.

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QLKVER W. NICHOLS, 0F DENVER, COLOMBO.

FORM Fen eamann'rs.

Application filed May 13, 1912.

To all-1111mm it may oo ncern Be it known that I, (haven W. Nnuons, a citizen of the United States of America. we siding at Denver. in the county of Denver and State of (loiorado. hare invented rertain new and useful improvements in Forms for Garments; and I do hereby derlare the following to be a full, clear. and exaet description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

b'ly invention relates to improvements in display forms for garments and more particularly to portable devices of this elass particularly adapted to display gowns and like artirles and its object is to provide a device whereby the garment rontained within a Case, may be displayed advantagemisly on all sides without removing it from said case, to provide a devire enabling the garment to be folded within a vase without injuring the garment. and to provide a derive light in weight. (heap in t-onstrurlion. eli'eetive in operation and to provide the same with various other new and useful features hereinafter more. fully desil'ihed and partieularly pointed out in the whims.

lhis display t'orm eon ists essentially of a garment t'orm adapted to he seemed within a ease and eonstrm-ted to allow the garment supported upon it to be folded wholly within the ease or unfolded and displayed on all sides without detaehing the said form from the ease. v

This device is also provided with various new and useful features of eonstruetion and arrangement. as will more fully appear bv reterenee to the aerompmrving drawings. in which Figure l is a perspet'tive view of a devire embodving my invention opened in the position it w uld be when used to display a garment: l ig. 2 is the same with the form partiall) l'olded: Fig. i is a longitudinal set-lion of the derive t'uil folded and the lid ot' the ease rinsed: and Fig. is a transverse set-tion through the bust. portion of the garment form illustrating the means for obtaining the desired cum attire for the bust.

Like numbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

l represents a suitable ease preferably reetangular in shape and comparatively shallow in depth. provnled with a removable rover 2 preferably hinged to the case at one end.

Specification of Letters Patent.

shown Patented Feb. 1 i it 913.

Serial No. 698,913.

T he garment form is composed of a waist member 3 and a skirt member 6 connected by a transversely divided and hinged middle member consisting of two substantially equal parts 4 and 5. the waist member 3 being hinged to the-upper edge of the part 4 and the skirt member hinged to the lower edge of the part All of these members which ronstitute the form are preferably made of l ftlY) ('ardboard or other like substanee and the hinges by \Yllit'll they are joined are prefierably made of fabrie glued to the said members the flexibility of the t'abrir alt'ording the net'essary hingefeature. The bust portion of the waist member is provided with ('mds or tapes 7 attai-hed at opposite sides of the said portion and extending behind the same. By shortening these eords the bust portion of the form is raused to bend or spring outward more or less giving the same the desired eurvature and the cords are then tied together to retain the form in this shape. When in use the part 4 of the middle portion is set-tired to the bottom of an suitable vase substantially as deseribeih preferably by a detaehable or bletiill fastener as at 8.

'hen the form is placed within the gown or garment to be displayed it is removed mm the ('ase by detaehing the fastener S and a l ter the garnwnt has been arranged on the form the same is again placed within the t'ahe and the fastener is passed through the opening at the bark of the gown and again attai'llt'tl to the bottom of the vase. The de- \'l('( is now ready for use and when opened the gown may be displayed on all sides. The

waist member may be inrlined l'orward in order to show the bark of the Waist or the skirt member mav be turned upward to display the bark of the shirt. The double hinge l oature ol' the skirt member of the form allows the skirt to be folded into the ease without ueressitating any sharp i-reases to he formed in the said shirt where it. is folded, the part 5 of the middle portion serving to spar-e apart the shirt nn-mber lrom' the waist portion. and alter the garment has been folded in the ease and the rover oi the same is elosed the whole derive and garment therein may be readily stored away or transported from plat-e to plat-e. or the garment exhibited as desrrihed without removal from the vase.

1. A garment form eomprisinga divided and hinged middle portion, a waist,p0rti0n pivotally attached to the upper edge of said middle portion, and a skirt portion pivotally attached to the lower edge of said middle portion.

2. A garment form, eomprisinga middle portion consisting of two parts hinged to each other, the upper part being fixed, a Waist portion hinged to the upper edge'of the fixed part of said middle portion, cords attached to opposite edges of the upper part upper partof said waist portion extending behind the same and adapted to be drawn together to cur'xe the upper part of the Waist portion, and a skirt. portiondpivotallyattached to the lower edge of san mlddle portion.

4. A garment form transversely divided into four portions hinged to each other in series, and-comprising a must portion, two middle portions, the upper one of which is adapted'to be fixed in a case, and a skirt portion foldable opposite the waistportion and spaced apart therefrom by the other middle portion.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLIVER W. NICHOLS.

W 'itnesses HARRY D. MARTIN, HARLOW J .MBROWN. 

